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Prescriptive tool for zero-emissions building fenestration design using hybrid metaheuristic algorithms
Rosana Caro, Lorena Cruz, Arturo Martinez +6
Designing Zero-Emissions Buildings (ZEBs) involves balancing numerous complex objectives that traditional methods struggle to address. Fenestration, encompassing façade openings an…
Comparative study of regression vs pairwise models for surrogate-based heuristic optimisation
Pablo S. Naharro, Pablo Toharia, Antonio LaTorre +1
Heuristic optimisation algorithms explore the search space by sampling solutions, evaluating their fitness, and biasing the search in the direction of promising solutions. However,…
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View
Bent Flyvbjerg
This paper explores how theories of the planning fallacy and the outside view may be used to conduct quality control and due diligence in project management. First, a much-neglecte…
Rapidly detecting disorder in rhythmic biological signals: A spectral entropy measure to identify cardiac arrhythmias
Phillip P. A. Staniczenko, Chiu Fan Lee, Nick S. Jones
We consider the use of a running measure of power spectrum disorder to distinguish between the normal sinus rhythm of the heart and two forms of cardiac arrhythmia: atrial fibrilla…
Quantum Logic Gates and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Pulse Sequences
J. A. Jones, R. H. Hansen, M. Mosca
We demonstrate how NMR can in principle be used to implement all the elements required to build quantum computers, and briefly discuss the potential applications of insights from q…